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Another Call Of Duty Streamer's Skin Getting Removed Over Anti-LGBTQ Controversy

12.6.2023
Timothy “TimTheTatman” Betar is getting his wish. Activision will remove the streamer’s cosmetic bundle from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone, a spokesperson for the publisher confirmed. Betar said he didn’t want the bundle to remain after friend and fellow streamer, Nicholas “Nickmercs”...

Data Shows Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly

9.6.2023
This really shouldn’t be news and it certainly shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, but yes, new data from Circana shows that—as we told you in 2017—women play video games. In fact, more than half of all Switch owners are women. And a very vocal bunch of idiots are reacting about as well as you’d...

Video Game Conventions Are Still Hotbeds Of Sexualized Abuse

8.6.2023
Just days after the March 2023 Game Developer Conference came to a close, disturbing allegations started making the rounds on social media: The ultra-popular conference for game developers, held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center and attended by an estimated 28,000 people, was rife with sordid tales...

Meet The Psychologist Determined To Prove Video Games Are Good, Actually

2.6.2023
Dr. Rachel Kowert is a busy woman. The video game research psychologist is currently in London, where she’s set to give a talk on the fostering of terrorist cells and extremist beliefs in digital game spaces, a project she’s working on with the Department of Homeland Security (no, she can’t really...

Twitch Finally Addresses Porn Deepfake Scandal Over A Month Later

7.3.2023
A month after Twitch streamer Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing accidentally revealed that he was watching sexually explicit deepfakes of his fellow streamers while on stream, Twitch has issued a lengthy statement regarding its stance on the controversy and what the company is calling “synthetic...

Twitch Star xQc Horrifies World With Messy, Smelly Room (Again)

16.2.2023
There are only so many hours in the day and when you’re a capital-S streamer, most of them are dedicated to grinding battle pass levels in whatever new live-service game just dropped or reacting to all the latest internet drama to thousands of chatters. As such, there isn’t always time to clean...

Your Favorite Musician Just Went Live On Twitch

1.2.2023
Today there are famous people tweeting about Call of Duty and streaming on Twitch, something you might have at one point considered to be a more niche hobby reserved for the most hardcore gamers. But the industry is booming. HBO’s biggest TV show debut in the last ten years is about a zombie game....

Huge Dong Makes Appearance During Streaming Awards Show

31.1.2023
Spanish streamer TheGrefg is one of the biggest stars on Twitch, so much so that he recently held his own awards show that drew almost two million viewers. And everyone watching was, for a moment, treated to a big ol’ ASCII penis.Read more

Guy Gets Saved From Being Fired Over Gaming On The Job In The Best Way

26.1.2023
The union-oriented Twitter account Daily Union Elections asked the world in a recent tweet, “Union folks, what is the best grievance/[Unfair Labor Practice] that you’ve ever won?” And the world responded in kind. As a proud union girl myself, I thought a few stories stood out, but one came up above...

Pro Gaming Champ Says He Peed In A Bottle During $205,000 Tourney

20.1.2023
When you gotta go, you really gotta go. I just wish that esports tournaments felt the same about letting their competitors use the toilet. Pro player Oliver “Skiter” Lepko peed in a bottle during an ongoing DOTA 2 tournament, citing the organizers’ rules against going to the toilet during a match....

Gaming YouTube Is In Turmoil Thanks To New Violence And Profanity Rules

10.1.2023
Members of YouTube’s gaming community are calling out the video hosting site for adding new regulations regarding profanity usage and violent content, disproportionately affecting gaming creators who produce unscripted videos such as let’s plays of M-rated games. Worse, the policy is retroactively...

Army Planned To Spend Millions On Twitch And Call Of Duty To Recruit Gen Z

2.12.2022
The U.S. Army’s gamer to soldier pipeline is hardly a secret at this point, but new documents show its recent, detailed plans to spend millions to recruit Gen Z through gaming-related sponsorships and ad campaigns. The partnerships ranged from Call of Duty Twitch streamers to sponsoring content...

Black Friday Isn’t Worth It, Not If You Really Want To Play Games

23.11.2022
I remember being disturbed by the talking mannequin while watching the 2009 rom-com Confessions of a Shopaholic who convinces Isla Fisher that a $120 Henri Bendel scarf is all she needs to conquer a job interview. It was disturbing because I, aching for anything loose and glamorous in the West 34th...

A Whole Damn Book On Millennial LAN Parties

9.11.2022
If you are old enough to remember LAN parties in their heyday, you will remember how complex (and amazing) they were. If you are not, you’ve probably heard old people speak about them reverently, in hushed tones, making them seem almost mythical.Read more

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